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The Concubine of Shanghai

Autor Hong Ying
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 ian 2011
China, 1907. Sixteen-year-old orphan Cassia is sold by her aunt to a brothel. There, she works as a lowly maid for Madame Emerald until a powerful and dangerous client plucks her from obscurity.

Master Chang is the boss of the fearsome Shanghai Triad and he always gets what he wants. Despite her unbound feet and breasts, Cassia swiftly becomes Chang's favourite mistress. He showers her with luxuries as he embarks on her sexual awakening.

But Chang's world is violent and precarious, and those such as Cassia who depend on him are bound to his fate . . .
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241950678
ISBN-10: 0241950678
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Hong Ying was born into a sailor's family in Chongqing on the Yangtze River in Southwest China. An author and poet, she began her career as a full-time writer in the early 1980s having studied creative writing at Lu Xun Creative Writing Academy and Fudan University.

She is best known in the English-speaking world for her novels:K: The Art of Love(which won the Prix de Rome in 2005),The Concubine of Shanghai,Peacock CriesandSummer of Betrayal. Her autobiography,Daughter of the River, has been translated into twenty-nine languages and many of her works have been turned into television series and films. Her latest memoir,Good Children of the Flowers, a sequel toDaughter of the River, wonAsia Weekly's Top Ten Books of the Year Award 2009. She lives in Beijing with her husband and daughter.

Recenzii

A brilliant and sensitive writer
A fascinating, full-blooded yarn which has the reader rooting for its heroine, a kind of Chinese Moll Flanders, every inch of the way
A beautiful and gripping writer